What They Found Under the Osirion — Egypt's Impossible Megastructure

In 1901, a workman at Abydos told Flinders Petrie he'd hit bottom. Petrie looked, and told him to keep digging. Beneath the sand was a passage. Beneath the passage, a hall. Beneath the hall, granite. Beneath the granite, water.

Every video on the Osirion stops there—at the surface, the hundred-ton blocks, the argument over who built it. This one goes below.

Because the people who actually excavated this place were far more troubled by what was under their feet than by what stood in front of them.
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